Strawfoot har bytt ut flera medlemmar och instrument. Reverend Marcus vill samtidigt förändra inriktningen radikalt. På sin blogg skriver han i september 2012: "The old Strawfoot started writing a third album a while back, titled Swansong. And it seemed to everyone in the band that it would be just that. It was shaping up to be a good, solid follow up to How We Prospered, with songs of treason and the assassination of Abe Lincoln, among other subjects…But we just couldn’t make it to the finish line before hitting the wall. Only a few select songs survived, the rest falling into home recordings and folklore. But, just as we did in the previous two albums, we built our songs around our genre, rather than who we really were. And by the time we got to Swansong, it felt a little inauthentic. It felt like we were trying to produce another Prospered, rather than really growing. This all changed in the blink of an eye, when my band—and life—suddenly crumbled around me, desperately crying out to be rebuilt from the ground up. And that’s what’s different this time around. What we’re creating is going to be special. Honest. We’re shedding the whiskey drenched cliches and trappings we began falling into musically, and are working hard to make something…true. As in our past albums, the words are still mine. But this time, they’re a lot more personal. They’re real. When we wrote for our last two albums, the band was determined to record only what we could play live. This time, we’re breaking down our songs, arranging them, filling them out, stripping them down and spinning them around on their heads. We’re bringing in guest musicians and taking advantage of the opportunity to do more than what you see on stage. This album is taking a lot longer, because we’re more invested in every level of it. We understand that 1000 Tragedies has the potential to be something very, very special. We’re nearly finished writing it, at long last."